In the beginning, in the garden, a baby was supposed to be a surprise, appearing as suddenly as a sneeze. The way God intended it, two people in love would share a like-minded pretty thought, and then there it would be -a baby nesting in a tree above their heads. Or someone might lay a cheek upon someone else's stomach and simply feel happy to be alive, then would come the sudden weight of a baby upon the person's back. People would like this, too. It wouldn't be like they'd walk around afraid to have a good time for fear of making babies. But the way God intended it did not pan out. After He cast Adam and Eve out of the garden, God wed the creation of babies with the act of sex. It was like pairing the eating of a nectarine with a lunar eclipse, the tearing of a fig leaf with a sudden snowfall. Previously it had no inherent logic but since God made logic, now it was the way things would be. Jonathan Goldstein

This is not a blog.

It's a personal challenge.

I've tried to write a blog since I heard about blogs. I started one about art, one about random thoughts, one with funny links... Nothing lasted more than a couple of weeks. Until I discovered Posterous. I thought it was genius... and then it shut down and I only noticed it when it was too late to recover anything. Now I've fallen in love with Squarespace, and I've decided to try again, hoping neither my discipline nor technology will give up this time.